an ‘anti-Pablo Motos’ worth 28 million in public money but… Will Broncano work on TVE?

Six months have passed since that Wednesday, February 28, when we uncovered the television whim of Pedro Sánchez, owner of the farm: Take Broncano to La 1 de TVE to place him after the Telediario and try to reduce the enormous impact of Pablo Motos, since the head of the Executive and some of his advisors consider that the Valencian who presents The Anthill is his ideological bête noire.

It was of no use to the media thugs in Moncloa that in the same group, The Great Wyoming from laSexta to the right; and they also had the advantage of being able to spend as much public money as necessary to snatch the star from Movistar. The Resistance and take it to the first channel of the Public Corporation, placing as an opening act none other than Marta Carazo, That is to say, to Newscast, the news flag ship from TVE, which could even shorten its duration to achieve the optimal fit for the comedian who until now asked his guests how much money they have in the bank, and how many times they have made love or masturbated in the last month. Pure public television for the whole family during dinner. We understand that the subject matter will change.

Many media outlets picked up on it, but others took more than a week to confirm a headline as surprising as ours: Pedro Sánchez wants David Broncano on TVE after the Newscast to deactivate Pablo Motos, our first fruits prayed. We cannot blame our colleagues for this, because even today it seems unbelievable, even half a year later, with Broncano about to make his debut on La 1, and with rivers of ink having flowed, talk shows having filled and the top brass of RTVE having fallen along the way in order to fulfil the ‘President’s’ wish. It was so incredible that after confirming it from three sources, one from Moncloa, another from Movistar and another, the definitive one, from TVE, we ourselves were still rubbing our eyes that day and repeating to ourselves that reality surpasses fiction. But it has become clear that anything can happen in a corporation at the service of the power of the day, which costs us more than a thousand million, controlled de facto by the Government.

The first media outlet that shot us without citing us was The World. A specialist journalist reported the aforementioned signing in her newspaper ten days after our scoop was published. She said that the agreement was closed and gave an approximation of the huge figures of the contract, both in terms of costs and time. It was not true that it was closed. RTVE was still negotiating, as we had reported a week before. In fact, when 70 days after we uncovered the plan, on April 10, the contract was formally closed, after the red wedding which decapitated its leaders and made the board and the top of RTVE bleed, we were the first to speak with Broncano and he confessed to us that he was finding out through us.

But when The World at the beginning of March said it was closed, but it wasn’t. The proof is that, as it would later be known, in order to close the agreement, the initial demands of the comedian from Jaén had to be reduced, who asked for three guaranteed years. Another proof that it wasn’t closed when the Unedisa newspaper took it for granted is that hiring Broncano meant the departure of the president of RTVE and of its number 2. At first, the information in Urbano Cairo’s newspaper did not mention that Broncano himself Pedro Sánchez was the instigator of the operation But they ended up buying that second part of our scoop, the juiciest one for the ideological racket, to the point that a month later Joaquin Manso opened the newspaper he directs with that same topic and as the main topic and on the cover. The tweet from Informalia It is from February 28th and the cover of The World It is from March 27th.

Pedro Sánchez wants David Broncano on TVE after the Telediario to deactivate Pablo Motos https://t.co/rnDJOJq5Ro

— Informalia (@Informalia) February 28, 2024

The editor who had picked up our news without citing it (or she didn’t want to or perhaps she hadn’t documented herself sufficiently and therefore didn’t see it, despite it being picked up by countless media) explained to someone at her newspaper when they showed her what she had published Informalia that her situation was not the same because she did not maintain that Pedro Sánchez was behind the operation. A month after this digital newspaper said it, the same journalist said in her newspaper: “Brutal pressures were exerted to make the millionaire signing and put him in competition with The Anthill“.

The only thing that is certain is that Broncano will earn at least 28 million euros, what we don’t know is how many viewers it will be able to gather and if it will be able to compete with Pablo Motos.

Half a year later Broncano has overcome all obstacles. We just need to know how he is doing and if his payers (who pay with our money) are happy with the data. Beyond Broncano’s professional quality, they will tell me how much of a priority it is to allocate 28 million of public money to pay for the project. a program that was already provided to us by a private company, at no cost to the public treasury.

In any case, September will answer some of these questions. Because now the new season begins, which officially starts this Monday, although the battle is so fierce that several programs and their stars brought forward their return, such as Sonsoles, TardeARwith Ana Rosa Quintana, Babylon Showwith Carlos Latre, Morning peoplewith Adela González or the Aruser@s by Alfonso Arús. This unusual strategy responds to the fierce competition expected this season, where the fight for leadership will be intense.

Both La 1 and Telecinco are trying to undermine the unbeatable Antena 3 and Atresmedia, which have dominated the share for three years. The high point of this battle is access prime time, precisely where it is The Anthillwhich begins its nineteenth season with Rafa Nadal as the first guest. David Broncano on La 1, which premieres in a few days under the name The Revolty Babylon Show by Carlos Latre, has debuted with irregular audiences even before the heavyweights of the competition arrived.

The expectation is focused on the confrontation between Pablo Motos and David Broncano, who debuts on public television with a format that theoretically has as a reference The ResistanceHowever, the Andalusian comedian’s programme faces uncertainties, not only because of its ability to attract La 1’s audience, traditionally over 65 years old, but also because of the political context surrounding his hiring. The Resistance has shown signs of weakness in recent times, with audiences that did not exceed 0.3% of the screen share, which has generated doubts about whether The Revolt will be able to compete with The Anthillwhich continues to dominate even in reruns. Concepción Cascajosa, president of RTVE, defends the signing of Broncano, arguing that, although the cost of 14 million per season is high, it represents a saving compared to the previous programme in the same time slot. Could it be that the other programme was not cheap? How many workers did the strip that was on in that time slot feed? And Broncano?